John Samuel Agar
John Samuel Agar (1773–1858), was an English portrait painter and engraver, who exhibited his works at the Royal Academy from 1796 to 1806[1] and at the British Institution until 1811. He did not exhibit again until 1836.[2] He had been declared bankrupt in February of the previous year.[3]
He was at one time president of the Society of Engravers. His engravings were chiefly in stipple.[1] They include works after Richard and Maria Cosway, and a series of allegories of the months after Edward Francis Burney, published by Rudolf Ackermann in 1807-9.[2] His illustrations for Richard Payne Knight's Specimens of Ancient Sculpture, Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman: Selected from different collections in Great Britain (1809), have been described by Nicholas Penny as "the finest ever made of sculpture".[2]
References
- 1 2 Bryan
- 1 2 3 "Drawing (Self-portrait of John Samuel Agar)". British Museum. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
- ↑ "Bankruptcies" (PDF). London Gazette. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from the article "AGAR, John Samuel" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
External links
- National Portrait Gallery Profile
Media related to John Samuel Agar at Wikimedia Commons